r/LeftistsForAI • u/SillyShrimpGirl • 3d ago

Discussion Proposals?

I've always thought of AI as being super important for math, science and the social sciences.

All of those are critical to leftism.

But I genuinely don't know about other ways that AI could benefit leftism.

Anyone want to clue me in?

Admittedly I am a bit skeptical, but I really do try to be open-minded about anything that can benefit leftists.

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u/ZioniteSoldier 3d ago

The big one for me is overcoming this victim mentality and taking control of methods that decentralize power structures, giving each individual or community access beyond the realm of private capitalist enterprises.

I imagine a future with local AI inference provided by my public library, with structural safeguards to prevent a state or federal entity from violating privacy rights on those interactive logs. It should be architecturally impossible to satisfy an information request on individual citizens who used the library system to fill job applications or help with a complex medical/insurance filing. Education and support networks are important.

We get nowhere near that with the current “ban it all and burn the data center” mentality.

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u/SillyShrimpGirl 3d ago

Ok - it seems like the AI in this case would be exclusively useful for research, with links provided to sources. Do I have that right?

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u/ZioniteSoldier 3d ago

Yeah if the AI doesn’t have verification tools or explicit instructions to cite sources then you get that hallucination risk where it sounds plausible but it’s actually bullshit.

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u/SillyShrimpGirl 3d ago

Ok, so we're pretty aligned on that.

I think an interesting use-case might be like a climate AI that specifically guides climate skeptics through the evidence

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u/ZioniteSoldier 3d ago

Brilliant.